Hear The GOAT | radioNOVO News for Parkersburg, WV 06-16-26

Good morning.A massive twenty-five-point-seven-million-dollar infrastructure overhaul is officially coming to the Parkersburg water system. Governor Patrick Morrisey announced a two-million-dollar state economic enhancement grant to help the Parkersburg Utility Board upgrade its primary water treatment plant. Utility board officials say the millions will be used to significantly expand local treatment capabilities to target and eliminate harmful PFAS chemicals from the community's drinking water, aligned with the latest federal regulations. The multi-million-dollar project will be jointly funded by the state, utility board contributions, and corporate funding from Chemours.The Ohio State Highway Patrol is searching for answers this morning following two separate, unrelated fatal crashes over the weekend. State troopers report forty-eight-year-old Richard Brooks of Malta was killed Saturday night when his motorcycle veered off State Route Two-Sixty-Six, leaving his passenger hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. Hours earlier, fifty-six-year-old Roger Cage of Chesterhill died after being ejected from his commercial truck when it overturned on State Route Five-Fifty-Five. Investigators state that alcohol and drugs are suspected factors in both accidents.And tens of thousands of people packed downtown Parkersburg over the weekend for a double-header of major summer events. Parkersburg City Park saw record-breaking crowds of over five thousand attendees for the eighth annual Pride Fest on Saturday afternoon, while just blocks away at Bicentennial Park, hundreds gathered to sample local restaurants and craft breweries for the nineteenth annual Taste of Parkersburg.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.